Lemme ask one thing. Since Pakistan does not have a real space program anyways. I am sure Pakistan's infra will be much better than India, isnt it?
1. Dams? Naaah waiting for finances from China.
2. Ports? Naah waiting for finances from China.
3. Public Transport? Naah waiting for China to finance Lahore Metro. And lets not even talk about Pakistan's Railway system.
4. Health care? IMR worse than India, avg life expectancy worse than India, Pakistani patients have to beg visa for critical medical procedures in India.
5. Education? Literacy rate well... what can I say. Colleges? Err... QS Rank thread on this forum speaks a lot.
6. Per capita GDP? USD 500 less than India
I mean what did the folks like Pakistan (who started at the same place as India) achieved by NOT having a space program? Did cost of (rather saving from not incurring that cost) space program had ANY impact on Pakistan and B'desh that you are so much promoting?
The reason I use B'desh and Pakistan as benchmark is because they all had the similar starting point.
Are we discussing National policies now?? Stay on topic...
Oh?
India does not need space tech?
India News: As meteorologists observed a trough of low in the southern Indian Ocean more than a week ago, five Indian satellites kept a constant eye on the system
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
.
Let me expand on what I wrote........"it doesn't need space tech coming from a Mars Orbiter".
If it did, there would have been noise from the Indian media....but all we get is dead silence and news reports of how it's a near costly failure.
You do know that SpaceX is built upon lots of innovation that NASA did back during the space race. Had there been no NASA there would have been no SpaceX. And yes, there were lots of space missions with no immediate benefits.
Not really, all early space missions were to establish Space Dominance....which both Russia and the US have achieved, US more so.
India on the other hand has barely launched it's own ISS and is already dreaming about Mars.
Here is the deal, you will never be able to run a SpaceX in Pakistan till you have your own equivalent of NASA. Because there won't be enough experienced scientists working in the space tech in the first place for a business to captialize on. So go on
be China's second fiddle
.
First you bought JF-17, next you will buy satellite feed and from what I heard you are "contributing" in Chinese space program to send a Pakistani in space. On a Chinese spaceship. I don't know what that will bring to your country as well -- If I use the same yardstick that you are using.
Pakistan is doing things differently and in a cost effective manner. More bang for the buck. Not a tiny bang for millions of bucks wasted.
As long as the end goal is achieved, doesn't matter if it's a NASA, SpaceX or Chinese rocket which carries the payload.
As for the JF-17, we made it.....I don't know where you got the "bought" version of the story. Not only is it manufactured (with some foreign parts like any other fighter in the world like India's also hint hint).
JF-17 is in full production mode while Tejas is still in development mode.....and you have to buy more foreign products (like the Rafale) to bring back the status quo.
You also fail to understand that if Pakistan achieves air superiority over India through indigenous programmes like the JF-17.............being slightly further ahead in the Space Domain won't help India.
Since all that matters is on this green blue planet........the reason why humanity went to Space in the first place was military dominance.....just like it is today and will be tomorrow. Your country is that far along the pathway of space dominance fyi.
And I hope India sends a hundred such Orbiters to Space....for it'll take away attention from much pressing matters.
